Alumni News

David Jekel has been named one of the four 2015 recipients of the College of Arts and Sciences' Dean's Medal, presented annually to an outstanding student in each of the College's four divisions. David is a double major in Mathematics and Classics, and will begin graduate studies in mathematics at UCLA next year. He has been doing research for a senior thesis under the supervision of Professor Tatiana Toro and additional research with Professor Jim Morrow. David is the twelfth math major in the... Read more

Cris Negron has received a Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Already the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Cris has been working on noncommutative algebra and noncommutative algebraic geometry under the supervision of James Zhang. He will continue his research next year at Louisiana State University, and then as a postdoc at MIT.

At the Joint Mathematical Meetings in San Antonio earlier this month, Brian Hopkins received the Mathematical Association of America's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, the same award that Jim Morrow was given in 2008. Hopkins, a professor at St. Peter's University in Jersey City, New Jersey, obtained his PhD at UW in 1997 under the... Read more

Matt Junge, a graduate student who received the department's Excellence in Teaching award in 2011, is featured in the current newsletter of the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound for a year-long college prep course he is offering at the Washington Correction Center for Women. With the resumption of his class earlier this month, one student declared, "... Read more

Austin Roberts shared the award for best student paper at the 26th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2014) held at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. These awards recognize the depth of the papers' results as well as the clarity of the recipients' presentations.

Reid Dale has been named one of the four 2014 recipients of the College of Arts and Sciences' Dean's Medal, presented annually to an outstanding student in each of the College's four divisions. He is also the recipient of an NSF graduate fellowship, which he will use to pursue a PhD in mathematics at UC Berkeley. Reid already has a head start, having just visited Berkeley for a semester to pursue several research projects... Read more

Toby Johnson and Austin Roberts are the latest departmental recipients of Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. Johnson has been working in probability and combinatorics under the supervision of Ioana Dumitriu and Soumik Pal. He plans to carry on his research as a postdoc at the University of Southern California. Roberts works in combinatorics and will complete his PhD this year under the supervision of Sara Billey. He will be teaching in... Read more

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a CAREER grant to former grad student Matthew Kahle. Matt received his PhD from UW in 2007, with Eric Babson and Chris Hoffman as advisors. Following three years at Stanford as an NSF postdoctoral fellow and a year at the Institute for Advanced Study, he became an assistant professor in 2011 at Ohio State University, receiving a Sloan Research Fellowship a year later. Matt's... Read more

Sam Hopkins has been awarded this year's Dean's Medal in the Natural Sciences. A double major in Math and Computer Science, Sam is also a recent recipient of an NSF Graduate Fellowship that he will use to pursue a PhD in Computer Science at Cornell. The College of Arts & Sciences presents the undergraduate Dean's Medal annually to an outstanding student in each of its four divisions. Sam is... Read more

Elliot Paquette and Brent Werness have won NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships. Paquette is a fifth year graduate student, completing his PhD in the spectral theory of random matrices under the direction of Ioana Dumitriu. His NSF postdoc will be spent at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Werness completed his PhD at the University of Chicago before joining our department in 2012. He will remain in the department as an NSF postdoc. His primary fields of interest are Schramm-Loewner Evolutions and... Read more